__/ [ [H]omer ] on Wednesday 14 March 2007 03:21 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Bang Goes the DST Time Bomb
>>
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>> | Monday brought more jeers than cheers from IT organizations
>> | about daylight-saving time fixes and the immediate impact
>> | on Microsoft software.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/bang_goes_the_dst_time_bomb.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
>> http://tinyurl.com/ynsvra
>
> What a mess.
>
> 2 *years* to prepare for this, and MS *still* couldn't get it right. No
> simple Windows Update solution for Win2K, "Hotfix charging" at an
> outrageous $4000.00 a time, and buggy patches that had little affect.
One could conveniently blame the competence of the programmers and their
level of familiarity with the code (many have left) [1], but I suspect that
the code just isn't sufficiently modular. Even Microsoft's mouthpiece
(Funkenbusch) admitted that it's true. Why else would Vista require 60% of
its existing codebase to have the rewrite brush applied [2]?
>> This should quiet the trolls down.
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[1] Former Project Manager of Excel:
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| The only way Microsoft has managed to hire so many people
| has been by lowering their hiring standards significantly...
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/24.html
[2]
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| "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista
| operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company 'scrambles' to fix
| internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN... Microsoft has
| also admitted that it has major problems in it's Windows division and has
| has immediately initiated a total restructure of the division..."
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http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Computing/Platforms?Article=/Computing/Platforms/R7G5G6U4
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